Motivational Quotes

Goals

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

- Otto, Herbert A.

Best Quotes about Goals

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

10.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

11.

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

12.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

13.

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

16.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

17.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

18.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

19.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

20.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

21.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

22.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

25.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

27.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

28.

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

29.

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

30.

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

31.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

32.

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

39.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

40.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

41.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

44.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

49.

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas